LOVING My kitchen aid mixer!

[Quail_Antwerp]

I haven't tried making bread with my KA. Just mashed potatoes and cookies so far

Aren't the mashed potatoes nice and creamy?! I love making them in my KA!

Yes, they sure are! and so yum!!

 

[dipence71]

Wow what a deal!!! I love mine too. Especially since having to go gluten free means I make almost everything homemade and it saves me allot of time and elbow grease lol..
Next on my list is the pasta/ravioli attachments. REALLLY looking forward to when I find the money running up a hill and can catch it LMAO!!!

 

[miss_thenorth]

I am on my fourth kitchenaid mixer :/ and the only reason I am on #4 is because of Costco's excellent return policy. I have the 550 Hd model, wheich is supposed to be heavy duty, but the motor/gears have konked out on every mixer I had. I guess they don't expect people to mix english muffin batter in it.

Glad you like yours though

I've heard of occasional issues with the KA. So I bought a Bosch universal. I wanted it specifically for making bread. It mixes 6 loaves at a time like it were muffin batter. Love that thing!

It's great the KA is working well for you - what a great find!

I have a Bosch Universal, too. I got it because my KA overheated a couple of times kneading bread dough, and I could only make 2 loaves at a time with the KA. Now I use the Bosch for bread and the KA for everything else.

That's good to know. I have a feeling I will get sick of exchanging it every coupla months. Maybe I will splurge and get the Bosch next time.

 

[keljonma]

I got my kitchen aid 8 years ago and love it...except it can only handle the dough for 2 loaves of bread at a time. I got this one at the store at Aurora Farms and it was a reconditioned model. I haven't had any troubles with it. My bil and my future dil both have the old models made about 20 years ago and both are going strong.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I got my kitchen aid 8 years ago and love it...except it can only handle the dough for 2 loaves of bread at a time. I got this one at the store at Aurora Farms and it was a reconditioned model. I haven't had any troubles with it. My bil and my future dil both have the old models made about 20 years ago and both are going strong.

I heard the older models were built much bettter. I just make regular batches of dough--single pizza crusts, dough for two loaves of bread, and a single batch of english muffin dough. I have never loaded mine to capacity, but I do use if every other day. sometimes every day. Every one I have had, the gearing skips, and it bogs down and alwasy wehn I am making english muffins.

 

[VickiLynn]

My SIL dumpster dived this kitchen aid mixer when they were stationed in Germany. She then went and bought extra attachments for it for me!

Right now, it's mixing up the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies - meanwhile, I'm pulling out the first batch of easy peanut butter cookies, and have a batch of oatmeal cookie dough going in the fridge!

LOVE that I can have more than one cookie dough prepped or being prepped! while the kitchen aid mixer has one dough going, I can hand mix another! this is awesome!

What attachments did you get? If you happen to have the food grinder with the fruit/veg strainer, you can make applesauce or tomato sauce fast & easy! It always amazes me when I watch that thing work!

 

[keljonma]

I got my kitchen aid 8 years ago and love it...except it can only handle the dough for 2 loaves of bread at a time. I got this one at the store at Aurora Farms and it was a reconditioned model. I haven't had any troubles with it. My bil and my future dil both have the old models made about 20 years ago and both are going strong.

I heard the older models were built much bettter. I just make regular batches of dough--single pizza crusts, dough for two loaves of bread, and a single batch of english muffin dough. I have never loaded mine to capacity, but I do use if every other day. sometimes every day. Every one I have had, the gearing skips, and it bogs down and alwasy wehn I am making english muffins.

Oh, MTN, that sounds like a real pain and really frustrating. The problems that KA is having with their newer equipment is probably why I was able to have my pick of machines when I got mine as reconditioned. But knowing what I do about it, I now wish I had picked the larger model. Now that we don't have an oven, I'm not using it as much, so that will probably help it last a bit longer.

My future dil's KA was her grandmother's who was a professional baker. It is a dream to use. It is very large and takes up quite a bit of space on the kitchen counter. She got a lot of wonderful attachments with it. I told fdil to watch out or it may find it's way to Ohio one of these days. She says the machine she has is 40 years old and all metal.

My bil uses his (which was his mother's) mostly for canning season (food mill type attachment) and for baking at the holidays. It too is a large old machine with some wonderful attachments.

I had an Oster Kitchen Center back in the 70's which was a work horse, with about 8 or 10 attachments. Unfortunately, it got destroyed in a fire.